Hearts

I finished the hearts art quilt. It is now on etsy waiting for someone to love it enough.

I checked the weather today, no rain till Sunday, so I got my weed killer out and sprayed those most annoying weeds on the rocks that we have. Three hours later, It Rained!!!! Whatever.... 

So will see over the next couple of weeks whether it worked or I am off to buy more weed killer. 

Have started on the garden quilt and am using metallic thread, hmmmm it keeps breaking and I have the right needle and it is superior thread so it is fantastic. I am getting real sick of rethreading. Will  keep going for a few more flowers until I cant take it any more. It usually works fine, so who knows why not today.

Am reading a real good book by Michael Conolly, have never read his books! how did I miss that. Totally enjoying it and it is so well written.

So tired today, a good book and rest is what I need. 

Jane

Dreaming

I was looking on a real estate website the other day and I got distracted by looking at gorgeous houses in the millions :) it was so much fun. It's nice to dream about having a divine house with everything you want (needs are way taken care of in these houses :) and then I started looking in Tasmania too :). We lived in Tasmania for a little while and it was a fantastic experience and the island is sooooo beautiful. It is a real paradise. So I look up houses dreaming about living there again in some gorgeous old barn built by convicts :) or a gorgeous old victorian house that must cost a fortune to heat. It's cold down there. So, do you get online and real estate dream? It is an escape from mopping floors (need to do that now, escaping with this blog post) and other mindless tasks we do. 

While I have been quiet on the blog front, more mindless tasks that give me nothing to blog about :), I have been working on this.......

I am going to add bead to the flowers and will have bead as the trail to the dragonflies and the butterflies, should look good :)

I have lynx on my laptop and I don't know how to use the program that comes with it for editing photo's and I could not find where to rotate !!!!

Anyway, will take some photo's when its free motioned and maybe it will look better :) Off to get my hair cut, can't decide whether to be real brave and cut it short into some funky style or get an equally funky bob. My hair at the moment is long, it reaches my behind so this will be a big change. I am sick of all the hair everywhere!! I clean out my bathroom in the morning and by lunch it is like someone has had a fight with my hair and pulled it all out!! gross. Off it comes. Will post a photo if it looks any good :)

Jane

Update

I have finished sticking all the hearts down and now am doing the free motion work. There are so many hearts!!!! hmmmm

Sorry for the terrible quality of photo's, still saving for that wonderful camera that will take wonderful pictures and do my videos just as well. 

It has rained here for about 10 days straight. It is so humid and dark, you really miss the sun, and yet when it finally pushes it's way past the clouds, it is going to be soooo hot and humid. But that's okay, the perfect time of year is coming, autumn. It is so gorgeous, the only thing missing is the changing of the leaves.
Off to go clothes shopping with my daughter today, she is very very excited :) me too.
Jane

New project and a garden

Well this is what I am up to, always looks like a child has done it at this stage :) but once I have finished off and start the free motion work then it looks better. I hope :)

Every white part will be filled with hearts, I have cut out all sorts of size heart so that they fill these gaps. I am feeling good about it :)

My garden :) a watermelon!!

Spinach and corn mmmmmm :)

Sunflower about to bloom, so cool.....

How do I stop basil from seeding?? And it has gone all light yellow, diseased :(

I am reading an old book out of my bookshelf called Alias the Saint, which is about the saint remember that show on tv with Roger Moore as the saint? The book is very fun and quite intelligently written.
What about you? what have you been reading?

Jane

Feels Great!!!

Well over the past week I have sold two of my art quilts!! And that makes me so excited that someone likes what I do so much that they will pay me money :) It hurts to post each piece but I cant fit them all on my wall so they might as well go to another wall. It just feels so great!.

I have finished the 'get rid of fabric' quilt. It has been stuck under my sewing machine for a couple of weeks now that I have forgotten what it looks like, so when I took it off today and threw it on the floor, I got such a great feeling :) wohooo. So now it just needs a border and then I can put that on etsy.

So my new piece will be, well actually I have a few idea's which is a relief since I had nothing there for a while. So now I am doing something with hearts and then a pure thread green one with many different shades of green through it. Wish I could do two things at once :)

Trying, trying, trying to lose weight. I think I lose about 200gm a week, so sad. But at least I am losing weight I guess.

And I know that The Help came out a while ago but I just got to it and wow what a powerful book. Could not stop reading it. My family had to come and find me as I hid away just reading it. The only bad part was that it ended :).

So there the work, now off to bind it and cut out more hearts for my next project. What are you up to? Send me a picture and I can post it here.

Jane

New Video

Well I have finally gotten round to doing another video. Here is the link 

I have also found The Piano Guys and they are incredible. Their music is just beautiful.

I have been working on my 'getting rid of fabric' quilt, see what you think.....

I have just started working on the feathers, and now will do the filler with white, much more forgiving :) I have completed this quicker than I thought so that was a good feeling :).

Jane

The Magic Cupboard!

So I have been quiet finishing off the commissioned quilt and it is now done and the client happy. Of Course :)
Then I got the urge to cut up fabric and sew it together again. Ever get that? Well I thought since I am not the best piecer I would just go with something real easy. And I mean easy :)

So this is what I did........


I told you it was basic :) pretty hopefully. I really just want a big space to do my free motion :)

 

This is the one I am working on, ready on my machine


 A red one.....

What I decided to do was pick one stack out of my fabric cupboard and make a quilt out of that. I chose the colour on white, love them, and brought out that stack and cut away. Well I made enough for three quilts and there is still a pile there!!!! I have a magic fabric cupboard hahahahaha
So the bits that are left I am going to use as binding. I am determined to use a whole stack up.

And I wanted to make quilts with my whole fabric cupboard as I though, well it is just sitting there doing nothing. Wow! how many would I make? Maybe I can just cut them up into big squares and join them together that way:) have an never ending quilt that will go into the Guiness Book of Records :)
Imagine trying to get that under a domestic sewing machine hehehehe.

Talking about sewing machines, I tried to enter the Gammill competition where you were to name their new sit down long arm machine and you could win one. Well you entered on facebook and it kept crashing on me when I entered. Sigh, tried so many times and I think that it was because I was not an American citizen. So sad!! I would have totally won and then had a sit down machine :) for freeeee :) (see bedtime stories for reference:)

So out of all my fabric I made three quilts with lots left over. And then to top it off my local quilt shop was having THE best sale, $3.95 a metre!!! Well at least I have some room :) hehehehe but I resisted, well it was more the fact that school has gone back and mega bills and no more money than resistance. 

I am determined to make quilts out of all this, if you have a great pattern let me know. 

On another note, SCHOOL IS BACK!!!! Wow, how amazing does it feel to have a bit of quiet. But I cannot believe how fast the time went and then it was 3pm!!!! Sad face as my daughter says hehehhe

Jane